# PICTURES, PHENOMENOLOGY AND COGNITIVE SCIENCE **Opening (not a real abstract):** Q.2 What is pictorial representation? Q.3 What is the experience pictures characteristically generate? Q.4 What is it to understand a picture? (I will sometimes call the form of representation in Q.2 "depiction," and the experience in Q.3 "seeing-in.") It is generally accepted, at least amongst those who have distinguished these questions, that Q.2 is the most important. Philosophical accounts of pictures should aim to capture the distinctive form of representation pictures exhibit. However, one might answer that question by answering one of the others. For instance, one might say what a picture is (Q.l), and then try to define depiction as representation by pictures. This is not a promising strategy. Perhaps only pictures represent pictorially, but not all do: consider abstract paintings. More importantly, many pictures **Authors:** [[Hopkins]]